Last 2 meetings we talked about Strand 3.11 Robotics, a bit of Artificial intelligence and expert systems.

Watch the following links below so that you will get more ideas on how these things work.


Expert Systems


These are computer systmes which contains knowledge of an human expert. They are designd to solve simple and complex problems by reasoning like an expert.

Expert System in Accounting

Expert System VS AI


Simulators


Toyota Driving Simulator


Robotics

Robot - automatically guided machine, able to do tasks on its own.
Android - automated machine designed to look and acts like human
Cyborg - is a cybernetic organism that replaces part or parts of a human body.
Humanoid - is something that has an appearance resembling a human being
Sensors - a device that measures a physical quantity and converts the signal into meaningful information that can be understood by humans or machines.

NASA - Curiosity in Mars Watch the video


Military - Human Universal Load Carrier


Artificial Intelligence


Artificial Intelligence -is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. IT is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have a confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.

Click here for the Branches of AI

Singularity


Web 2.0


We also talked about Web 2.0.

According to Wikipedia.com it is the feature of the web that facilitates information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration. It is PROUSERS.

According to Webopedia it is the WWW that is focused on the ability of people to collaborate and share information online. That Web 2.0 refers to the transition from a static HTML pages to more dynamic web that is more organized and is based on serving web applications to users.

According to Web 2.0 Summit, Web 2.0 is about harnessing collective intelligence.

In the table below, list down 2 Web 2.0 application that is in the market. Each one of you should add 2 Web 2.0 applications.

Name
Description [2 Marks]
Link [1 Mark]
Sang
Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams. This is an easy to use online diagramming app that's built for collaboration. Create fast, professional looking diagrams with Creately's large library of objects and easy start templates. Now you can draw anything easily. A fully interactive interface that works right in your browser along with industry standard encryption and redundant backups. No downloads or installs necessary.
http://creately.com/
Sang
The most powerful and easy-to-use survey software around. Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes. Collect responses via your website, e-mail, iPad, Facebook, and Twitter. Generate and share easy-to-read reports.
http://polldaddy.com/
Tord
Create documents, spreadsheets, surveys and presentations collaborative. Access and modify your the files from anywhere. Comments and chats are also included
https://docs.google.com/
Tord
Upload your videos online for the whole world to see. Browse billions of videos on a massive variety of genres. Anything from songs to comedy.
www.youtube.com
Irene
Have a collaborative blog and need to monitor it for changes? Researching a subject and need to follow a lot of weblogs regularly? Bloglines makes it simple to browse new articles on each blog you've subscribed to. Your subscription list can be organized into folders.
Bloglines
Irene
Can't get all your friends and classmates using a single text chat client? Meebo acts a browser-based bridge to AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live/MSN Messenger, ICQ, and Jabber. Nothing to install and it's free.
Meebo
Yan


Yan